Also, there is such an opportunity for a Vladimir Putin parody (Putin is the closest analog to Doom in both real life AND fiction). I don't understand how the filmmakers could pass on it.
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Tom Scola - Aug 11, 2015 4:40:58 am PDT #196 of 4001
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Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2015 5:37:36 am PDT #197 of 4001
brillig
Doom shows up in the Avengers Assemble cartoon. I guess that's just a different set of rights.
smonster - Aug 11, 2015 8:01:15 am PDT #198 of 4001
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Ant Man was a perfectly serviceable summer superhero movie. I liked it, but have no desire to see it again.
Bummed about FF. I love Michael B. Jordan!
P.M. Marc - Aug 11, 2015 10:53:57 am PDT #199 of 4001
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Just watched the 2005 version. It didn't suck as much as I had expected it would.
Gris - Aug 11, 2015 2:59:35 pm PDT #200 of 4001
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It's never been catwoman panned or anything. Never seen it since I have limited interest in the characters (and probably will until a really good movie is made) but it has the occasional defender so it can't be all bad.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 11, 2015 3:14:53 pm PDT #201 of 4001
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I think people really exaggerate the problems with it. Tim Story got the basic characters and relationships of the FF right, it's just secondary things like the revamp of Dr. Doom that don't ring true.
Tom Scola - Aug 11, 2015 3:27:54 pm PDT #202 of 4001
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Is FF minus Chris Evans better than Dark Angel minus Jensen Ackles?
Kalshane - Aug 11, 2015 4:52:13 pm PDT #203 of 4001
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Also, there is such an opportunity for a Vladimir Putin parody (Putin is the closest analog to Doom in both real life AND fiction). I don't understand how the filmmakers could pass on it.
That's a very apt observation. Though Putin would be a lot cooler if he was a sorcerer in power armor.
Doom shows up in the Avengers Assemble cartoon. I guess that's just a different set of rights.
Yes. I don't know what the specific details are, but I know the TV and movie rights are different. (AoS is in a weird situation. I think if they had decided to make the TV-verse separate from the movie-verse, they could have used characters they don't have movie rights to, but because they are in the same universe, they can't.)
Doom also showed up on Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (which was an awesome show) and was absolutely perfectly-handled, IMO. The whole episode is pretty great.
Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2015 5:07:35 pm PDT #204 of 4001
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I do love the cartoons. I've got the first season of EMH on disk, but I can't find the second season in anything but Blu Ray, and I want to play them on my computer.
edit: I do watch them on Netflix, but Netflix is not eternal.
P.M. Marc - Aug 11, 2015 6:05:06 pm PDT #205 of 4001
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Is FF minus Chris Evans better than Dark Angel minus Jensen Ackles?
Hmm. If by this you are asking "are the parts of the movie without Evans better than the parts of Dark Angel without Jensen Ackles?" then the answer is no: S1 of Dark Angel, which had a grand total of one episode with Ackles, is still kind of entertaining, esp. with the world building, and Logan hasn't gone into full-on passive-aggressive die in a fire douche mode yet. Honestly, S1 is probably stronger than S2 in many respects, but S2 Logan just makes me not want to watch S1.
The parts of FF without Evans in them are where they stuck the filler. Except for when Ben meets Alicia.
That said, I'm actually fannish about Dark Angel, so it obviously speaks to me on a level that FF doesn't.
Though DAMN IT, FANDOM! Where's all the snarky, physically improbably, relevant to my interests Ben/Johnny? Seriously, fandom? SERIOUSLY? Sigh. At least the handful there are are mostly good ones. Except that mpreg one. That was appalling.
I think people really exaggerate the problems with it. Tim Story got the basic characters and relationships of the FF right
Yeah, I agree. I mean, maybe if I were more invested in DOOM, I'd care about what they did there, but... umm. I kinda don't, beyond thinking Alan Cumming would make a good Doom.